Re: [squid-users] connecting to gmail via imap over squid

From: Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar_at_fantomas.sk>
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:56:35 +0100

On 26.02.09 14:52, sameer shinde wrote:
> > Squid is an http proxy and has no means to proxy imap traffic!

> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Angela Williams <angie_at_eoh.co.za> wrote:
> >> Can anyone let me know, How do I do this?
> >> Is there any way I can do it with squid? Is there any other way?

> > Not with squid but it depends on what platform squid is running on.
> > If it is linux then iptables can solve the problem.
> > Anything else you will have to solve yourself!

> I'm on Ubuntu Linux 8.04

there's no reason to proxy IMAP, unless you want to sniff it
(which you can even without proxying), or filter for viruses and spam.
See untangle for the latter.

If you want neither one, do simply NAT.

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